Redwood City man sentenced to 70 years to life in prison for molesting four girls

By Bonnie Eslinger

Daily News Staff Writer

Posted:
01/13/2012 08:15:06 PM PST

Updated:
01/14/2012 12:21:53 AM PST

A 62-year-old Redwood City man convicted of sexually assaulting four young girls while he was staying in the home of two of the victims was sentenced Friday to 70 years to life in prison, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

Over a three-year period, Eusebio Valladares kissed, orally copulated and sodomized the girls, whose ages at the time ranged from 9 to 11. Two victims were sisters who lived in the home and the other two were the sisters' friends. In December, a jury convicted Valladares on 24 felony molestation counts.

The abuse occurred when Valladares was alone with the girls in the house after school. It started in January 2007 and continued until March 2010, Wagstaffe said. Valladares was arrested March 14, 2010, after one of the sisters' friends told her mother about the molestation.

Valladares admitted to the crimes, according to police. But he also wrote a letter to the mother of the two sisters offering to pay her $3,000 if she would get the girls to say they lied to police.

In addition to prison time, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Leland Davis ordered Vallardares to make restitution to the victims in an amount to be determined, register as a sex offender for life, and submit blood samples for DNA testing.